Bambis everywhere !!!
Even godly ones...
Being in Nara on a Sunday was a little maddening (especially with a foot the size of Tokyo tawa), but also quite lucky, since it meant we got to see a shintôist wedding ceremony. We couldn't get into the temple but the main part of the ceremony happened just in front of the door, where it didn't seem out of place for us to stand and watch.
The whole ceremony is apparently quite a bit "modernised" if not "occidentalised" (her kimono apparently wasn't too traditional and they did exchange rings, which wouldn't have been done in a "proper old fashioned" wedding) but there was some trad music and some prayer-like chanting; along with binding sake drinking.
We then proceeded to Tōdai-ji, the biggest wooden structure in the world until 1998. It is inhabited by a humongous Buddha, with 34cm diameter nostrils. There's a hole of a similar size in one of the temple's pillars, so that people can prove they would be able to go through that Buddha's nostril.
The door itself is pretty impressive :
Now that I've been through the serious stuff here's the day's randomness.
(Yam Udon. Yammy and yummy, but nuru-nuru !)
Even godly ones...
Being in Nara on a Sunday was a little maddening (especially with a foot the size of Tokyo tawa), but also quite lucky, since it meant we got to see a shintôist wedding ceremony. We couldn't get into the temple but the main part of the ceremony happened just in front of the door, where it didn't seem out of place for us to stand and watch.
The whole ceremony is apparently quite a bit "modernised" if not "occidentalised" (her kimono apparently wasn't too traditional and they did exchange rings, which wouldn't have been done in a "proper old fashioned" wedding) but there was some trad music and some prayer-like chanting; along with binding sake drinking.
We then proceeded to Tōdai-ji, the biggest wooden structure in the world until 1998. It is inhabited by a humongous Buddha, with 34cm diameter nostrils. There's a hole of a similar size in one of the temple's pillars, so that people can prove they would be able to go through that Buddha's nostril.
The door itself is pretty impressive :
Now that I've been through the serious stuff here's the day's randomness.
(Yam Udon. Yammy and yummy, but nuru-nuru !)
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